{"id":455,"date":"2012-03-15T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=455"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:49:19","slug":"super-quick-file-search-for-poser-agent-ransack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2012\/03\/15\/super-quick-file-search-for-poser-agent-ransack\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-quick file search for Poser: Agent Ransack (free)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: now overtaken by the Everything<\/a> freeware.<\/em><\/p>\n

Poser’s search-by-keyword feature is incredibly useful. But sometimes it shows you a prop that doesn’t have a clickable route back to its folder. That can be frustrating. For instance, you can only remember the name of a prop (cupping glass, from a Wild West doctor’s pack), but want to remember the name of the pack it comes with (Bad Medicine). The prop is sitting there in your search-results, but with no way to get back to its parent folder.<\/p>\n

So, is there a better way to search your multi-Gb of runtime? Yes, and it’s free and simple to use. It’s also faster than Poser at search. Agent Ransack<\/a><\/strong> to the rescue. This software is a free lite version<\/strong> of a larger professional file search tool called FileLocator Pro. But the Lite version works reliably for simple tasks and is quite fast. It’s completely free, and free of ads or time-bombing<\/strong>. It’s a much lighter and nippier solution than launching the lumbering Google Desktop service, or having Windows File Indexing constantly grinding away in the background.<\/p>\n

Once Agent Ransack is installed, simply paste your runtime path into its “Look in:” box (this is remembered each time you launch Agent Ransack), and ensure ‘Subfolders’ is ticked. Then pop a single search word in the “File name:” box and off it goes. Agent Ransack is quick compared to un-indexed Windows Search.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately there’s no nice visual thumbnail previews like you see in Windows Explorer, otherwise it would be a perfect content library search-tool. I guess it’s so fast because it ignores all of that. <\/p>\n

But once you have your list of results you can highlight the file you think you want, right-click<\/strong> on it and choose ‘Explore Here’… <\/p>\n

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Update: now overtaken by the Everything freeware. Poser’s search-by-keyword feature is incredibly useful. But sometimes it shows you a prop that doesn’t have a clickable route back to its folder. That can be frustrating. For instance, you can only remember the name of a prop (cupping glass, from a Wild West doctor’s pack), but want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-utilities","category-companion-software","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}